I need to start indexing typefaces I like, if only so I can find them again. This is just a start.
Extensive!
Well-curated
A foundry making faces for stuff like comics with other applications
A short index of
A huge family
Created by the Google Fonts team
Has just a hint of the Future Of The Past
The sans serif which is always there for you
The serif’d face for use on screens which is always there for you
A versatile & nifty family of monospaced fonts
A sophisticated family of fonts for coding
The perennial face for people who have graduated from Helvetica
A “bread-and-butter” serif’d face
I use these in UX design wireframes to underline that they are sketchy
Squiggles instead of text
Turns text into squiggles or blocks suggestive of words; includes a range of weights
Turns text into rougher squiggles suggestive of words
Turns text into plain strokes
Turns text into chunky blocks
Handwriting-ish faces suggesting sketchiness
A serif’d face for comics which has both bold and italics for when one needs to show examples of real copy while still hinting at sketchiness
A slightly whimsical face which implies a neat but unfinished sketch
A less janky descendent of Comic Sans, for that “do not take this seriously” feeling
A facsimile of an elegant early 20
th century face. Evidently they fished the original typeset out of the Thames.
A nifty wayfinding font influenced by science fiction movies.
A serif face with a lot of weights and a distinctive chunky character
A sans serif face designed for accessibility
A fancy pseudo-arcane face I like to use in
game materials.
A serif’d face with just a bit of character
An eccentric face designed to support dyslexics
A deliberately janky-unto-scary face which is surprisingly readable which I used for character sheets for a
TTRPG about insomniacs
A very legible face which resembles handrwriting
A blocky face evocative of science fiction movies
A family of numerals that look like segmented displays and
nixie tubes
Useful icons
Useful icons
An easy way to make hex grids
An easy way to draw rayguns & rockets
An easy way to draw zepplins and steampunk spaceships
A few key glyphs for the TTRPG
A tool for handling fonts’ special characters
A tool for surveying & organizing one’s fonts; included with a
SetApp subscription, which I recommend to all Mac users
An article about the show’s production design with an interesting word about how no, that is
not Helvetica.
A game-like tool for exercising kerning skill
A fun collection of commentaries & resources about the joke term “keming” to refer to bad kerning.
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